biography
pronunciation:
[loobin]
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| lived:
| (1849–1919)
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| biography:
| Agriculturalist, born in Klodowa, C Poland (formerly Russia). His family settled in New York City in 1855. In 1884, on a visit to Palestine, he had a vision that his life should serve justice. He took up the cause of agriculture, and fought the railroads over practices that benefited the middlemen over the growers. In 1896, at the International Agricultural Congress in Budapest, he realized that justice for the American farmer depended on justice for all farmers. For 12 years he sought a sovereign state to support an International Institute of Agriculture; in 1910 Italy agreed, and the Institute's treaty was ratified by 46 nations. He was the US delegate to the Institute until his death. |
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